Posted on 07/05/2010 6:52:59 AM PDT by Patriot1259
Now a pastor gives an update on the situation in the country
BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN (ANS)- Kyrgyzstan's provisional leader Roza Otunbayeva has been sworn in as president Saturday (July 3,2010), ushering in what the turbulent Central Asian nation's government hopes will be a new era of stability and democratic freedoms.
After her inauguration, Otunbayeva, 59, hailed what she described as a momentous new era for Kyrgyzstan, which has endured months of political and ethnic violence since former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev was deposed in a bloody uprising in April amid widespread anger over falling living standards and rampant corruption.
Reports have said that as many as 2,000 people may have died in violent riots that swept the southern city of Osh recently and the United Nations had increased its official estimate of people displaced by the unrest from 75,000 to around 400,000. The UN humanitarian office spokeswoman, Elisabeth Byrs, said that an estimated 300,000 people have been displaced and remain inside Kyrgyzstan. ....
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Kyrgyzstan's provisional leader Roza Otunbayeva... hailed what she described as a momentous new era for Kyrgyzstan...Yeah, I'll bet she did.
“was deposed in a bloody uprising in April amid widespread anger over falling living standards and rampant corruption.
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What lessons can alert FReepers learn form this urban disaster?
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